Thursday, January 17, 2008

Calcium blocker overdose

This topic is reviewed in the American Journal of Critical Care, via Medscape. While the review covers multiple modalities in the overall management it emphasizes the use of insulin and glucose (hyperinsulinemic euglycemic therapy, HET). Although HET is physiologically sound and has had impressive results the experience with patients is small and the optimal regimen is not known. A proposed protocol is linked here.